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One of the most important, practical financial tools is the emergency fund. As huge believers in the emergency fund and its ability to help people get out and stay out of debt, here are some of the most frequently asked questions debunked. What is an Emergency...

Processing money decisions, and communicating about those decisions, is not always easy. In the next few weeks, Rebecca looks at how we process money issues, and how we listen to one another in the process. When it comes to money questions, or any issues that need to...

So, what’s your story? Our life is FULL of story. We speak in story, think in story, live in story. John Eldredge in his book Epic says this about life and story: Life doesn’t come to us like a math problem. It comes to us the way that a story does, scene by...

Coaching Accountability What do these words bring to mind? Many of us feel a sense of resigned acceptance. Acknowledgement of the necessity for coaches and accountability without any relish for the idea. But do we truly understand what coaching looks like? And what...

As a student, August always seems to surprise me! Preparing for the new school year can be both daunting and exciting, especially for university students as we see our tuition costs climbing. Here are some of the things I do to prepare which makes the school year run...

Part II – Receiving Guest blog by Pastor Pam Dyck, The River Community Church, Abbotsford, BC Pastor Pam Dyck is the author of the book Soul Restored. (pamdyck.com). She has a heart to see people set free to receive the love of God the Father, and love Him in return....

Dr. Beth Anne van Noppen with Rebecca van Noppen Managing money on a good day can be stressful, but adding Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to the mix, can create additional challenges. Dr. Beth Anne van Noppen of Eastern Ontario, a specialist with...

Dr. Beth Anne van Noppen, with Rebecca van Noppen Managing money on a good day can be stressful, but adding Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to the mix, can create additional challenges. Dr. Beth Anne van Noppen of Eastern Ontario, a specialist with...

Part I – Giving Guest blog by Pastor Pam Dyck, The River Community Church, Abbotsford, BC Pastor Pam Dyck is the author of the book Soul Restored. (pamdyck.com) She has a heart to see people set free to receive the love of God the Father, and love Him in return. Her...

I wrote the title over this blog and wondered if the statement is even true. Can a steward’s well be dry? If you have been reading my previous blogs on my thoughts on stewardship you will know we have been sitting in Jeremiah 2, where God tells Israel they have...

By Rebecca van Noppen “Let me pay for that,” the young woman said behind me as I finished packing up my groceries. The cashier was holding up a jug of apple cider that had been forgotten, laying on the conveyor belt in no-man’s-land between groceries paid and those...

Long ago, the Israelite nation left Egyptian slavery and headed to God’s promised land. After 400 years of crying out to the Lord of Hosts for deliverance, they were set free. It was not an instantaneous journey to freedom. They put one foot in front of the other,...

Financial Gain through Pain “There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst As the saying goes there is no gain without pain, or as Jung has said, there is no coming to conscious awareness without feeling pain....

By Hope Van Noppen with Amanda Van Noppen “I define shame as the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging—something we’ve experienced, done, or failed to do makes us unworthy of connection.”...

Highway driving is fast-paced driving. And when I hit the road, it is very easy to drive the speed everyone else is driving. Before I know it, I am well past 120 kilometres and still speeding up. So many people pass me and before I know it, I start passing...

By Reb van Noppen The Big Blue Whale—a Dodge Ram full size conversion van—was one of Dave’s bucket-list finds at a local auction. It suited his height, his desire for vehicle space, and fit our family of seven just perfectly, along with dogs. It was our home away from...

Our call, as God’s children, is to be content with what we have. In the book of Hebrews, God tells us to keep ourselves free from the love of money and be content with what we have, for He Himself has promised never to leave us or forsake us. (See Hebrews 13:5) He...

It is gently raining this morning and I am sitting on my back deck watching it fall. It has been a hot summer and the first half of it has been very dry. Rain. Water. Without it there is no growth or life. The last few weeks the rain has come. The burn ban is lifted....